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Definition of humble:
- Hornless. See Hummel.
- Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
- Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill- deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.
- To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
- To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self- sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.
Synonyms:
reduce, declassed, diminished, secondary, gangrene, scummy, baseborn, clement, tractable, modest, necrose, basal, bring low, junior-grade, hesitant, low-pitched, standoffish, downhearted, crushed, unostentatious, subaltern, placid, pocket-size, quiet, crucify, simple, blue, resigned, humbled, vulgar, dispirited, chagrin, gentle, miserable, passive, tentative, inferior, menial, stoical, little, dishonor, lower-ranking, fearful, meek, mean, down, low-down, disgrace, apprehensive, cast down, peaceable, broken, sedate, discredit, restrained, unimportant, mild, downcast, petty, small, belittled, reverential, lowborn, subdued, debase, pocket-sized, immoral, take down a peg, ductile, small-scale, mortify, unskilled, withdrawn, humiliate, ordinary, backward, compliant, haughty, ignoble, lowly, over, grim, unwashed, demean, depressed, commonplace, degrade, lower, minor, tame, abject, scurvy, mealy-mouthed, low-toned, respect, depleted, content, manageable, obsequious, big, tolerant, down in the mouth, attitude, humiliated, self-love, low-spirited, low, gloomy, proud, commonplace, meanspirited, peaceful, minuscule, enduring, self-conscious, blushing, sink, common, sphacelate, abase, base, depress, retiring, simple, ordinary, unimportant.
- humble (part of speech: verb)
- defeat (part of speech: verb)
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lowly (part of speech: adverb)
- measly,
- wretched,
- hard,
- puny,
- homespun,
- shabby,
- paltry,
- poor,
- unaffected,
- privileged,
- unvarnished,
- humdrum,
- trivial,
- upper-class,
- vulgar,
- ill-bred,
- unrefined,
- contemptible,
- sordid,
- common,
- natural,
- noble,
- untouched,
- undistinguished,
- seemly,
- out-of-the-way,
- proletarian,
- rough,
- scrubby,
- earthborn,
- becoming,
- underprivileged,
- ignominious,
- obscure,
- ignoble,
- beggarly,
- severe,
- inglorious,
- uncouth,
- unequal,
- insignificant,
- pitiful,
- meager,
- cringing
- modest (part of speech: adjective)
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servile (part of speech: adjective)
- curtsying,
- yielding,
- acquiescent,
- browbeaten,
- subordinate,
- feudal,
- inferior,
- devoted,
- slavish,
- downtrodden,
- subjected,
- complaisant,
- genuflecting,
- deferential,
- attending,
- kowtowing,
- groveling,
- obedient,
- servile,
- submissive,
- menial,
- docile,
- subservient,
- biddable,
- dutiful,
- willing